This is Mill Stream yesterday, running quickly under elevated Main Street in the Town of Blue Hill. The stream spills over a small dam, and empties into Blue Hill Bay.
The red building on Main Street was built in 1880 and is known historically as the Wescott Blacksmith Shop. Charles Wescott bought the building in 1910 for his blacksmith forge, which produced iron art works as well as providing utilitarian iron services. The building has contained a series of restaurants since about 1978.
In the 1700s until about 1939, the nearby small mountain also named Blue Hill and its surrounding area were known for good timber trees for ships and building construction. Early on, saw mills were constructed beside the stream’s mouth and run with its water power. In the later years, a gasoline engine provided power until the mills succumbed to “progress.” Information courtesy of the Blue Hill Historical Society. (Blue Hill, Maine)